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The Secretary for War, who, as it happened, was a personal enemy of Jackson's, thinking his connection with Burr might be used against him, wrote calling in sinister tone for an account of his conduct. Jackson's reply is so characteristic of the man that it deserves to be quoted. The whole conspiracy fizzled out. Burr could get no help from any of the divergent parties he had attempted to gain.
It had done its duty. The twins were masters of their financial and moral fate. It was about that moribund period of the social solstice when the fag end of the season had fizzled out like a wet firecracker in the April rains; and Geraldine and Kathleen were tired, mentally and bodily. And Scott was buying polo ponies from a British friend and shotguns from a needy gentleman from Long Island.
But it was a half-hearted attempt at best, for everyone's ear was strained for the front-door bell, and everyone had an eye half-cocked toward the window. Before the half hour was up the game had fizzled out. And still Dacre Wynne did not put in an appearance. Borkins, having been summoned, brought in some whisky and Merriton remarked casually: "Mr.
She soon run back wi' another bottle in her hand, an' I tell'd her 'twer pop she hed put down. "What hev you bin an' dun, sur?" she sed; "that wur a bottle o' Moses's shampane, at seven shillin's an' sixpence a bottle." I tell'd her I know'd 'twer nothin' but pop, as it fizzled so.
The smaller machines made a reasonable noise; their straps hummed over the drums, every now and then the brushes buzzed and fizzled, and the air churned steadily, whoo! whoo! whoo! between their poles. One was loose in its foundations and kept the shed vibrating.
When Ignatieff, the Tsar's intimate, the great diplomatist who has now curiously fizzled out, would honour us by partaking sometimes of afternoon tea in our tent, he would call Andreas by his name and call him "Molodetz" the Russian for "brave fellow."
Madden and Caradoc squared away at each other. The Englishman headed his men, his long face sinister in the lamplight. But he had hardly taken a step when an absolute pallor whitened his countenance, he halted, shaking, gasping, then flung back an arm to Galton. "I I'm fizzled out!" he stammered with twitching lips. "Go ahead fight!"
And the counter current of information making its way slowly they were only flintlocks, perfectly efficient though, had bayonets superseded government arms brought out some time ago by Law to arm some mysterious filibustering expedition that had fizzled. In this manner, without confusion, an organization of two thousand men was formed, sixteen military companies officered and armed.
"Aren't those cases ever true?" Eunice asked. "'Bout two per cent of 'em. Most of those that have been traced down to actual evidence have fizzled out. Well, I must be going. You see, now, I've sold this whole spiel that I've just given you folks to a big newspaper syndicate, and I got well paid. That puts me on Easy Street, for the time bein', and I'm going to practice up for a new stunt.
They tried to once, hut it fizzled out, and nobody really cares. And what's the result? Using every man of what reserves we've got, there's about enough to man the fleet on a war footing, and no more. They've tinkered with fishermen, and merchant sailors, and yachting hands, but everyone of them ought to be got hold of; and the colonies, too.
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